When I heard that you wanted to have a class, I could not avoid it—I
immediately agreed. I am always available for the devotees, I am always at
your service, and I am always happy when you engage me in service. If anybody
has some spiritual questions, they can ask me...

Question: This week there is a very big festival, and many devotees
would like to participate somehow. We would like to ask you for some advice,
or instructions.

Many devotees will come there and you can give a class, you can give some
good prasadam to them. Give them nourishment—jive daya, Name ruchi,
Vaishnav seva. Serve the devotees, give them some advice about Krishna
consciousness. Also, many new people will come to the festival—you can
engage them in service, you can help them get spiritual benefit. These are
the main things.

Why are you making a festival? Making a festival means you are inviting many
people and you are giving them some prasadam, engaging them in Krishna
consciousness—it means practising Krishna consciousness.

Question: I have some particular service, but after some time I
feel this service is going away. Should I see it as Krishna's will or maybe
something else?

You do not need to understand it. If you actually follow your Gurudev's
instruction and practise properly, then if you can ask your heart you will
easily understand whether you are happy or not. It does not matter where you
are—if you fulfil Gurudev's desire, fulfil devotees' desire, you will
be happy.

Question: How can we understand whether this happiness is genuine
and not just some sentimental fantasies of our mind? How can we know we
actually have some right feeling?

What is the right thing? The mind is always naughty, do not follow it. You
must follow the instruction from your Guru, then you can feel satisfied. Do
not try to think with your mind, "Am I doing right or wrong?" That is not a
question. You must have full chastity and strongest faith in your Guru, then
you can easily understand whether what you are doing is right or wrong.

Question: In addition to the programs that we have regularly, we
are also trying to preserve some temple standards of our Math. We are trying
to chant bhajans and invite guests...

Yes, it is important to have an arati, bhajans, kirtan,
offer the bhog. These all are very important for our spiritual
life.

যে দিন গৃহে ভজন দেখি ।
গৃহেতে গোলোক ভায় ॥

ye dina grhe bhajana dekhi
grhete goloka bhaya

On the days when I see devotional service taking place in my home, I feel
that Goloka has manifested there.

Saranagati, 31.6, by Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur

Each of you should do this in your own house too. Make an altar at your home
and practise like this every day—it is necessary. You may not be able
to come every day to the centre, but you are staying in the family life in a
house, and you can maintain this kind of standard there every day. It is good
for you.

What do householder devotees do? Householder devotees can practise everything
individually at their homes and come to the programme at the centre every
Sunday. You eat every day, you go to the toilet every day, and you must
practise every day too! You must give an offering to the Lord, the Deities,
to your Guru every day. Do not eat anything without offering it—that is
not prasad! We must offer bhog to our Guru every day, and take
prasad every day.

'All our Guru-varga gave their life for service to the Lord.
Gurupad-padma, Srila Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj, Bhakti Siddhanta
Saraswati Thakur—they all used everybody and everything for service
to the Lord.'

'Destiny is very powerful. It does not listen to my knowledge of religion and always binds me with the ropes of karma. I do not see even a trace of hope. All I see is hardship. Thus helpless and distressed, I cry.'